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KANSAN.COM | MONDAY, NOV. 7, 2016
Aries (March 21-April 19) Watch your feet. Missteps could be costly. Avoid something that doesn't smell right. Suspictions get confirmed. Choose what's best for family. Coordinate efforts. Teamwork pays off.
Taurus
(April 20-May 20) Your work is under scrutiny. Work with someone who sees your blind spot. Follow rules carefully. Research the fine print. You can gain the upper hand.
Gemini
(May 21-June 20) Slow to navigate a roadblock. Make sure your reservations are in order. Resist the temptation to impulsively dash off. Get your ducks in a row.
Cancer
(June 21-July 22)
Changes necessitate budget revisions. In a conflict between love and money, collaborate with a partner to find solutions. Establish guidelines and controls.
Support each other.
Support each other.
Leo
(July 23-Aug. 22)
Listen to your partner's suggestions. They see something that you don't.
Get persuaded to a new view, and share what you're learning. It could get romantic.
get romantic.
Virgo
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Nurture your health with good food, exercise and rest. There's plenty of work, and it will go easier after recharging batteries. Trust your own good sense.
your own good sense.
Libra
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Slow down and enjoy the view. Avoid mistakes by clarifying instructions. Take a break, and go play. Celebrate and have fun with
people you love.
Scorpio
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Pay attention to household matters. Clean, organize and beautify your space. Rediscover something of value you hid in a "safe place." Enjoy family time.
Saaittarius
Saginartus (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Take charge of a project. Communication unlocks doors that seemed permanently stuck. Talk with your team. Listen and put in
Public radio broadcaster Ira Glass came to the Lied Center on Saturday to present his "Seven Things I've Learned" program.
actions. Remain open to new ideas.
Capricorn
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Get cooking, and customers flock to your kitchen.
Your past work speaks well for you. Use the grapevine to find connections. Positivity persuades. Pay bills with gratitude.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Prepare to launch a personal project. Friends help you see farther. Share and invite them into your game. Turn objections into agreement through gentle persuasion
persuasion.
Pisces
(Feb. 19-March 20)
You've been under pressure with deadlines. Don't take on any new challenges yet. Decrease stress with rest, loving.
Envision your plan.
Ira Glass shares life lessons at Lied Center event
stress with rest, loving pets, peace and exercise
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COURTNEY BIERMAN
@courtbierman
The key to good storytelling is a balance between plot and reflection, radio broadcaster Ira Glass told an audience at the Lied Center Saturday night.
Glass brought his "Seven Things I've Learned" program to Lawrence, although he issued a disclaimer at the beginning of the show — he's actually learned more than seven things.
"You can leave after seven," he joked.
The show ended up including nine things Glass has learned, from "how to tell a story," to "what it's like to drive across the country trying to learn Spanish." Glass alternated between recorded interviews and live storytelling to talking about people he's interviewed who made an impression on him in some way.
Go to the place where you want to work, go to the people you admire, make yourself indispensable and invent your future."
Ira Glass Public radio broadcaster
Glass has been working in public radio for more than 30 years. He is best known for the podcasts "This American Life" and "Serial."
"With the retirement
of Garrison Keillor from 'A Prairie Home Companion,' we feel Ira Glass is the torchbearer for public radio, quite frankly," said Derek Kwan, executive director of the Lied Center. "To be able to bring him to the University of Kansas and to the Lawrence community is a great honor."
For the "how to do stories on stuff nobody wants to hear about" portion of the event, Glass talked about visiting a Syrian refugee camp in Greece. He said it's important for journalists to be able to make harsh stories personal, whether they're talking about climate change, income inequality or any other equally unpleasant topic.
"We make it possible to imagine being [refugees],"
Glass said. "We can take enough time on the air and get enough details and take five minutes or 10 minutes or 20 minutes or whatever it takes so you can imagine 'Oh, if that were me and it was my kids, this is how I would feel.'"
Much of the night was dedicated to the presidential election. Glass drew applause when he criticized Donald Trump for being untruthful, and he blamed the media for spreading inaccuracies, such as the claim President Obama wasn't born in the United States.
"Isn't everything this year just, like, so ugly and horrible?" Glass said. "It's just sobering this year. And living through this historic moment, this historic election, for me one of the things that I feel so, so struck by — and I've talked about this on the air — is just how more than ever facts don't matter."
Marlaina Kaine, a University of Missouri student, drove from Columbia, Mo. to see Glass. She said she became a fan after discovering "This American Life" a couple of years ago. She said she was struck by the similarities between "Seven Things I've Learned" and the format of "This American Life."
"It was very surreal. It was kind of amazing," she said. "It was kind of like sitting in the room with him as he does 'This American Life.' It was very casual, and you could close your eyes and just be like 'I'm listening to the radio."
Glass also had advice for young journalists. He said a goal he had when he was younger was to make a salary as much as his age multiplied by 1,000 - it took him 34 years to accomplish. He told students in the audience that it's a great time to be a journalist, and perseverance is key.
"Don't give up. Go to the place where you want to work, go to the people you admire, make yourself indispensable and invent your future," he said. "If you want to do what I do, podcasting is one of the few places in journalism that's booming. Come in, the water's warm."
Benedict Cumberbatch in Marvel's "Doctor Strange."
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Review: 'Doctor Strange' best Marvel film yet
▶ CAMERON MCGOUGH @cammcgough
In some ways, "Doctor Strange" is like the illegitimate spawn of the Marvel Universe. Yes, the film does maintain the same chic aesthetic and wit it inherited from its predecessors "Iron Man," "Thor" and "Ant-Man," but it also possesses a new set of traits that haven't been seen in a superhero film for many years. Perhaps the individuality of "Doctor Strange" can be attributed to the fact that Benedict Cumberbatch's take on the superhero has yet to be tainted by the orgy of Marvel characters involved in the "Avengers" films, save for the ending credits scene involving dialogue
between Cumberbatch and a certain hammer-wielding Aussie. Nonetheless, the film proves to be a unique, mind-bending joy ride that introduces Marvel's strangest hero, without the presence of overbearingly formulaic Marvel DNA.
Much like Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark, Cumberbatch's Dr. Strange is just as arrogant as he is wealthy, thanks to his prestidigitation with a scalpel and the booming business that is neurosurgery. It appears that his closest relationship is with his own inflated ego, though he somewhat displays an unsettling, borderline romantic attraction to his favorite designer watches. A potent mixture of cellphone distractions, precipitation, serpentine roads and an indulgent, poorly driven Italian vehicle sends Strange's world to a resounding crash, literally. A rather ungraceful tumble down a mountain not only pulverizes his fancy Lamborghini, but also lands him on the other side of the operating table, crippling his hands and his career as a neurosurgeon. With this difficult blow, Strange feels as though he no longer has a purpose in life, so he is forced to find a new one.
Unlike the perpetual filmic re-envisioning, recasting and rehashing of Spider Man and The Hulk, the story of Dr. Strange has yet to be explored onscreen. Director Scott Derrickson
successfully used this as an opportunity to take this little-known Marvel character and place him into a film that is a remarkably improved version of its precursors.
Perhaps the "Doctor Strange" filmmakers' most significant creative liberty was the casting of the Ancient One, a character who is a man of Asian descent in the comic books, and a woman of Celtic descent in the film. The decision to cast British actress Tilda Swinton in this role was immediately met with accusations of whitewashing. However, the intent of the casting choice, according to the filmmakers, was to take this character that is written with rampant racial stereotypes in the comics and transform him into a character free of discriminatory baggage. Thanks to Swinton's charming, electric performance, it all works out incredibly well.
After exhausting every possible tactic known in modern Western medicine to no avail, Strange heads east to Nepal searching for a promising alternative that may fix his hands and return his life back to the way it once was. Along the way, a mysterious cloaked man (Chiwetel Ejiofor) saves Strange from a group of street thugs and takes him to a mysterious temple where he meets the An-
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